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Rachel (Kathryn Hahn) and Richard (Paul Giamatti) will have what she's having, in writer/director Tamara Jenkins' Private Life.

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A Couple Contends With Conception In The Honest, Funny 'Private Life'

5:09pm October 04, 2018

by Scott Tobias

Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti play a New York couple struggling to conceive in writer/director Tamara Jenkins' latest, which examines how infertility tests a relationship with humorous candor.

Yalitza Aparicio stars as Cleo, a nanny and housekeeper, in Alfonso Cuarón's Roma.

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NPR's Movie Preview: 15 New Films To Watch — And Watch Out For — This Fall

3:28pm October 03, 2018

From the big studio flicks to the festival favorites, here are some of the best and otherwise noteworthy films coming to theaters.

Despite Its Incendiary Subject Matter, 'Monsters And Men' Is Sober And Nuanced

5:01pm October 02, 2018

by Bob Mondello

Reinaldo Marcus Green drew inspiration for his new movie Monsters and Men from the 2014 death of Eric Garner at the hands of an arresting officer. The film deals with a police killing and its aftermath.

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Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper in A Star Is Born.

Fame Still Comes At A Cost For Lady Gaga And Bradley Cooper In The New 'A Star Is Born'

5:00am October 02, 2018

by Linda Holmes

Bradley Cooper's directorial debut, in which he plays a singer battling addiction opposite Lady Gaga as an up-and-coming talent, is precisely the deeply felt musical melodrama it should be.

A Single Act Of Violence Inspires Outrage And Anger In 'Monsters And Men'

1:30pm September 28, 2018

by Justin Chang

Reinaldo Marcus Green's haunting new film tells the story of three Brooklyn men whose lives are impacted by the shooting of an unarmed black man by a white police officer in their neighborhood.

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The life of Matangi Arulpragasam, best known as M.I.A., is examined in the new documentary Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. Here, she performs in Denmark in 2011.

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'Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.' Documents A Complex Life In Pop Atop An Unrelenting World

8:11am September 28, 2018

by Piotr Orlov

In the new documentary Matangi / Maya / M.I.A., director Steve Loveridge examines the development, rise and oppositional success of the iconoclastic pop star — who was always something else entirely.

"I played Jeremiah Johnson like this!": Robert Redford stars as Forrest Tucker in The Old Man & the Gun.

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'The Old Man & The Gun': Redford's (Possible) Swan Song Makes For Easy Listening

5:00pm September 27, 2018

by Glen Weldon

In what may be his final screen performance, Robert Redford amiably cakewalks through David Lowery's old-school, old-fashioned cops-and-robbers yarn.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead plays a stand-up comic in a film that's all about her life, and her act (and Common), in All About Nina.

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A Stand-Up Comic Stands Up To Her Troubled Past In The Blistering 'All About Nina'

5:00pm September 27, 2018

by Ella Taylor

Mary Elizabeth Winstead's bracingly mercurial performance drives this film about a New York stand-up who moves to Los Angeles for her career — and to sort out her private life.

Through The Looking-Glass: Manny (Anthony Ramos) and Dennis (John David Washington) in Monsters and Men.

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3 Ways Of Looking At A Police Shooting In The Powerful 'Monsters And Men'

5:00pm September 27, 2018

by Mark Jenkins

Reinaldo Marcus Green's exquisite drama examines, from three perspectives, the aftermath of the slaying of an unarmed black man; the film offers "neither unalloyed despair nor implausible hope."

Charlie (Joaquin Phoenix) and Eli (John C. Reilly) Sisters are a brotherly pair of assassins-for-hire in Jacques Audiard's The Sisters Brothers.

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The Tough Wild West — Now With Feelings — In 'The Sisters Brothers'

12:39pm September 21, 2018

by Justin Chang

Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly play a brotherly pair of assassins-for-hire in Jacques Audiard's latest film. Critic Justin Chang calls The Sisters Brothers a "funny, stirring, brutal story."